What is the difference between extremists and terrorists?

Perhaps a terrorist is defined by actual behavior and an extremist is one whose words/thinking is the same as a terrorists but without the behavior. A fine line, for sure, because words can terrorize, and we need to be very careful about the trend to stereotype anyone who does not agree with us as an extremist.

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